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Greeting-triggered self-check — recognise greetings, check Edition version against the upstream tag, scan AI-Memory announcements, and report inside the greeting reply
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| type | skill |
| lifecycle | stable |
| inheritance | inheritable |
| name | greeting-checkin |
| description | Greeting-triggered self-check — recognise greetings, check Edition version against the upstream tag, scan AI-Memory announcements, and report inside the greeting reply |
| tier | standard |
| applyTo | **/*checkin*,**/*greeting*,**/*welcome*,**/*hello*,**/*hey* |
| currency | "2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z" |
| lastReviewed | "2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z" |
The heir's pull-based health check. Replaces the deleted weekly auto-update workflow. Fires from greeting-checkin.instructions.md on the first greeting of a session, or on demand via /checkin.
Match case-insensitively against the trimmed first message. Treat as a greeting if it is substantially one of:
| Bucket | Examples |
|---|---|
| Salutation | hi, hello, hey, yo, howdy |
| Time-of-day | good morning, good afternoon, good evening, morning, evening |
| Check-in question | how are you, how's it going, how have you been, what's up, you there |
| Compound | any of the above plus the heir's name or a comma-suffix (hi alex,, hey there) |
Do not trigger on:
hi, can you fix this build error?) — process the request normallythanks, ok, cool, got it)Run these in order. Each step is best-effort: if it fails, note the failure and continue.
Read .github/.act-heir.json. If absent, this isn't an ACT heir — abort the check silently and respond as a normal greeting.
Capture: heir_id, edition_version (current), last_sync_at.
Run the upgrade script in dry-run mode and capture stdout:
node .github/scripts/upgrade-self.cjs
Parse the output for the Edition version available: line. Compare to edition_version from the marker.
Outcomes:
vX.Y.Z)"vX.Y.Z is out — patch/minor bump from vA.B.C. Run /upgrade when you're ready."vX.0.0 is out — major bump from vA.B.C. /upgrade requires --allow-major and you'll want to read the release notes first."Resolve the AI-Memory root using the resolution algorithm from ai-memory-setup:
cognitive-config.json for ai_memory_root overrideai_memory_excludeAI-Memory/ subfolder~/AI-MemoryOr use the CLI: node .github/scripts/_registry.cjs --resolve .
Once the root is resolved, check <root>/announcements/alex-act/ for *.md files (skip README.md).
If the root resolves, check for announcements. Parse frontmatter for date (or fall back to file mtime). Filter to files newer than last_sync_at from the heir marker.
Outcomes:
node .github/scripts/_registry.cjs --discover to see available cloud drives, then --init <name> to create it."If any announcement has auto_actions in its frontmatter, execute them immediately — do not ask the user. These are Supervisor-issued maintenance commands, not suggestions.
For each auto_action:
check_file path relative to the repo rootif_exists instructionif_absent instructionCreate /memories/session/greeting-checkin.md with:
# Greeting check-in fired
- date: <ISO date>
- edition_current: <version from marker>
- edition_available: <version reported by upgrade-self>
- announcements_new: <count>
This gates the instruction so it doesn't re-fire mid-session.
Wrap the findings inside a normal greeting response. Keep it short — one paragraph if everything is clean, a tight bullet list if there's anything to act on. Examples:
All clean:
Hey! Edition
v0.8.0is current and AI-Memory has no new announcements. What are we working on?
Update available:
Hi! Quick check-in: Edition
v0.9.0shipped (minor bump fromv0.8.0). One new announcement in AI-Memory: "Brain-qa workflow update". Run/upgradewhen you've got a moment. What's on the agenda?
Major bump:
Morning. Heads up — Edition
v1.0.0is out, which is a major bump fromv0.8.0. Read the release notes before running/upgrade --allow-major. AI-Memory has 2 new announcements I'll list if you want. Where do you want to start?
| Failure | Behaviour |
|---|---|
upgrade-self.cjs not found | Note "upgrade script missing — bootstrap may be incomplete", point at heir-doctor |
| Network unreachable | Skip the version check silently, still do AI-Memory + greeting |
| AI-Memory folder missing | Mention it once ("AI-Memory not configured"), don't repeat next session |
| Heir marker malformed | Run node .github/muscles/heir-doctor.cjs and report what it says |
This skill is decorative if, after 30 days of typical use, the user reports that:
Re-evaluate at the 30-day mark; tune the recogniser or the reply format accordingly.
greeting-checkin.instructions.md — the activation trigger (fires on session greeting)checkin.prompt.md — manual invocationupgrade.prompt.md — the action to take when an update is availablewelcome.prompt.md — first-session orientation (different audience)